Ryan revealed he couldn’t believe his brother had got the hairdo: “At first I was just dying of laughter. I got my own fidget spinner and held it up to the cut to compare and he thought it was hilarious.”

And his mum Nichola is flabbergasted the attention her little lad’s new haircut is attracting.

“He got it done on Tuesday by Ciaran James Roberts in Cutting Crew Barbers above Greenways off the Stewartstown Road. He has been doing it for a long time, he used to cut designs into my eldest son’s hair and even he can’t believe how much attention this has got.

“Caolan loves getting different stuff cut into his hair, he got Batman last time.

“He is a big fan of the fidget spinners, my eldest got one first and then they all wanted one.

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“So I asked Caolan if he wanted something in his hair this time and he said a fidget spinner – I said really, that’s a strange one but Ciaran was able to do it and even made it look like it was moving.

“I didn’t have a clue the picture had been picked up. I had said to Caolan he would have to show his brother Ryan, he was in stitches and took a picture and put it on his Twitter and it went from there.

“I don’t think Caolan realises, I told him he was all over the internet over the world but he just said, ‘I wonder if my teacher will like it?’, which she did.

“I went and told the barber and he said he had been doing it for 13 years but it took a fidget spinner for it to go viral.”